The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
EDDIE VAN HALENI grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
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